Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-04-09
NEWS AND NOTES.

Ihe Coercion bill appears to exceed
IN stringency the worst anticipations of
the Irish.
A number Of Afghan tribes have
promised to support the Ameer''s
threatened holy war against Russia.
Robert T. Lincoln offers the Sping-
held homestead to the state of Illinois
on condition that it be preserved with
care
Judge John w Harris, the first
attorney general of Texas and million
aire. died at Galveston, April l, aged
70.
Charles E. Selton, for twenty-five
years marine editor of The Boston Id
tiser, died of paralysis in that city on
Friday.
A wealthy wholesale merchant of St.
Petersburg has been killed for refusing
to give $4,000 rubles to the Nihilist
fund.
One of the finest specimens of the
cork bark oak i'll California is growing
in Visalia. 1t was planted about thirty
years ago.
William Kyle, a wholesale liquor
dealer of Toronto, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary for
forging notes.
At Ottawa, Ont, the thermometer
registered 100 below zero March 81,
and there were from four to five feet of
snow on the ground.
Edward M. Newman, in the employ
Of Michael Levinson, New York
clothier, has been arrested charged with
embezzling $4,000.
Quarantine has been instituted at Ell
Paso, Tex, against cholera, which is
travelling northward from South Ameri-
ca and has reached Panama.
The steamer Ballentine and consort
Northwest left Milwaukee for Chicago
on Wednesday night, but were turned
back at Racine by field of ice.
At the annual meeting of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company March 81,
a. proposition was adopted for the set
tlement of the Government debt,
Even the ministers at San Luis
Obispo. Cal. are going into the real
estate business, and they are usually
successful in their speculations
Henry M. Stanley writes that the
British fleet at Zanzibar has given way
to the German, and that traders of the
latter nationality are in the majority
A. L. Balfour, Chief Secretary for
Ireland, has been made the victim of a
hoax, an alleged internal device sent to
him proving on investigation to be
harmless.
Louis Seasongood, one of the wealth.
lest Hebrews of Cincinnati, is about to
start a bank in New York. He came
to Cincinnati with a peddler's pack on
his back.
On farm near Springfield, Illinois,
Thomas M. Reed was shot dead by
Writ Butler, a son-in-law of General
McClernand. The plea. of self-defense
will be entered
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll was admitted
to practice at the bar of the state in
New York last week When asked to
be sworn he refused and affirmed in
place thereof He then signed the
roll.
On the charge of misappropriating
the funds of the defunct Monarch
Insurance company, of DIS Moines,
B. F. Allen and F. M. Hubbard were
Friday arrested in that city and held
to bail.
The French Cabinet has agreed to the
adoption of a system of betting on
races, a portion of the profits from the
sale of the privileges to be devoted to
the encouragement of horse breeding
or charity
An officer of the Salvation army has
been brought into court at Charlotte.
North Carolina, for endeavoring to in
duce handsome heiress to renounce
home and fortune, marry captain,
and devote herself to the army
Mr.. Ruskin's violent utterances
against the Ambleside Railway recall
that when railways were first built in
England and for many years thereafter
he presistently refused to ride on them.
but travelled about in coach with
horses.
In the British House of Lords Earl
Cardigan Conservative presented a
bill providing for the purchase of Irish
holdlngs-or, in other words, for the
abolition of the system of dual owner
ship created by the act of 1881.
One of the most eccentric rich men in
New FORK city Is thevenerable Benjamin
Richardson. He is said to be. worth
100000 OF more, but lives in a small
tumble-down house in Harlem. He
holds mortgage for 100000 against
one of the NEST prominent insurance
companies in the city Mr.. Richardson
owns the historic Washington coach,
which he lets out whenever there is a
demand for this Revolutionary relic.